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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7304, 16 April 1885, Page 3

. . What is gas coke ? Gas coke is nearly All carbon, and carbon properly burned will giro out Li round numbers, 14,000 Units of beat per pmli oj very nearly a» much as the best English steam OMlt, Indeed, coal only surpasses It beoattfee 61 the ' titotll quantity of hydrogen which it contains uncomblned with oxygen. ;It is often urged that coke cannot beat good as coal Decame it has lost all the hnUnntidoi power equivalent to that of the gas driven off. Til I quite true that the coke resulting frtta obe ion of coal do' not possess the calorific valtlo ail' th<f coal from whioh it was made/ But It tttist be bMM in: mind that we are comparing • coke with ooel • weight roB wbiohi. ; Thus, lOOibs. ;of coal produces tielbs. of coke: so that some: SOowtr of epid to \ req ired to produce one ton of coke, and the difference Satisfactorily allows for the hIM. produslng - power Of the gas driven off. fx f.- .•■i . '■'£ Every Englishwoman will vemembrt how useful Hudson's Extract of Soap, wiu'ik the old - country for washing," cleaning, and scouring ■ «vtty-' thing. ; You ■- can fcialn a Jib. packet, from ■ VtO* storekeeper id the colony. Ask for Ik. ft.fe:—ftHM pore dry soap, in fine powder aid lather* freest* bat or ce? water.. •: , . *